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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't really know what you mean, I don't have a delay when opening apps, at least not a noticable one. However, do keep in mind that Gnome isn't really meant for slower hardware.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Running Manjaro Gnome on a thinkpad from 2020. This is the ootb experience for me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are aware that Manjaro ships a heavily modified version of Gnome (lots of theming-stuff and extensions)? You should try vanilla Gnome (eg. on Fedora/Arch/VanillaOS) or try disabling everything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Worth a try. However, the Debian Gnome my university offers has similar delays, so Gnome at least tends to get slow in the environments it normally gets used in. Based on obersavtion. I also don't remember noticing those delays when I tried other flavors of Manjaro like i3